JULY - 20218GOVERNMENT CIO OUTLOOKSecuring America's Energy Infrastructure in the 21st CenturySteve Westly, Managing Partner, The Westly GroupByhe Recent Colonial Pipeline Attack has proven there is no greater threat to our national security than protecting America's energy infrastructure. The FBI has identified DarkSide, a Russian ransomware group, for hacking Colonial, one of the largest US fuel pipelines transporting 100 million gallons of fuel daily along the Eastern United States. Darkside stole nearly 100 gigabytes of data over 2 hours from Colonial's network and extorted about 75 bitcoin­roughly $4.4 million.The Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a new Security Directive that requires critical pipeline owners to report cybersecurity attacks to the TSA and to review their current cyber practices and procedures.While this is a step in the right direction, we need to do more to protect America's most important resource: the free flow of energy.TOPINIONIN MY
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